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Show x FOR RAW MEAT EATERS OF OG-DEN. Are you a raw meat eater, or do you order "an inch-steak rare," which when served is nothing more than warmed raw meat? If you have an appetite for raw meat, keep that appetite in subjection. Here is the local government veterinary in charge in Orrrlrr. with mi pvhihit of rnriGwnmis fjilrnn fVntn n fnf sfppr which he condemned. Perhaps you do not know that the segments of tapeworms from a human body, if taken up by cattle, sheep or pigs, will hatch eggs out of which will wiggle the heads of tapewormsuot much larger than pin worms, and these worms, perforating tho walls of the stomach, will' incyst themselves in the muscles and can be from there transmitted to meat caters, if the worms are not killed in the process of cooking or preparing the , meat for liunum urFump-tion. urFump-tion. There were thirteen tapeworms discovered in the heart of a beef last week, or worms enough to start a tapeworm 100 feet long in thirteen men, women and children of this city, had the meat been allowed to reach the markets instead of being condemned and destroyed. Tapeworms are transmittable from humans to livestock and, by eating improperly cooked meats, from slaughtered animals, to humans. The tapeworm in livestock does not lodge in the intestines as in humans. The ineystcd worms live a short time and die. In the body of man, the worms attach to the walls of the intestines with four suckers which are a part of the head and they sap the nourishment nourish-ment and set up irritations which cause a derangement of the nervous ner-vous system and a breaking down in health. The history of the tapeworm and the discovery of tapeworms in cattle brought here from other places should serve as a warning warn-ing to the fellow who has been eating large, rare, juicy cuts of beef. , v |